The Crime Reducing Effect of Education
The Crime Reducing Effect of Education
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02430.x
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发表时间：
2011-05-01
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Vujic, Suncica
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作者：
Machin, Stephen;Marie, Olivier;Vujic, Suncica
在这篇文章中，我们研究了教育的犯罪减少潜力，提出因果统计估计的基础上，改变了义务教育离校年龄在英格兰和威尔士的法律。我们在一个回归不连续的设置框架的分析，并发现显着减少财产犯罪的比例减少，没有学历的人和增加的离开学校的年龄，导致法律的变化。研究结果表明，改善教育可以产生显著的社会效益，并可以成为减少犯罪的关键政策工具。
In this article, we study the crime reducing potential of education, presenting causal statistical estimates based upon a law that changed the compulsory school leaving age in England and Wales. We frame the analysis in a regression-discontinuity setting and uncover significant decreases in property crime from reductions in the proportion of people with no educational qualifications and increases in the age of leaving school that resulted from the change in the law. The findings show that improving education can yield significant social benefits and can be a key policy tool in the drive to reduce crime.